Citations

http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783

For Ancestry - is that for Profiles on the Public Member Trees - OR for the source Documents on Ancestry - or ???

That's a good question, Lois.

The SmartCopy utility picks up (some) of citations from external trees (FindAGrave, Rootsweb, Ancestry.com, MyHeritage) and inserts them in the Geni profile "overview" with transparency back to the source for the citation.

With a MyHeritage data subscription, SmartCopy can cite within in the profile overview "and also," RecordMatch links the document.

Both of these are separate from downloading / uploading to the Geni profile and using the document functions to "source cite."

Hope that's clear.

re: "inserts them in the Geni profile "overview" with transparency back to the source for the citation" -- does this mean folks without an Ancestry Membership be able to see the Sources on Ancestry?? Or ???

Does having a MyHeritage Data Subscription make any difference at all for sources from Ancestry?

Lois - I will have to post examples. I cannot answer abstract questions - my mind doesn't work that way.

Obviously MyHeritage is a competitor to Ancestry.com and the parent to Geni, so viewing original source documents will be a different experience if they are linked via MH.

To give it another try in words.

- I have access to Ancestry.com. I can use SmartCopy to copy public member trees. Those trees may have attached to them documents from ancestry (or other sources); those documents are cited but not viewable in the original unless manually downloaded / uploaded - unless you "also" have ancestry.com access and thus can follow the citation back to the repository.

(That should be clear enough for ya!)

Thank you all for your suggestions on transferring citations from Ancestry.com to Geni.